Sunwoo Park is a Korean Lyric Coloratura Soprano.
She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Seoul National University and her Master’s degree and Graduate Certificate from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. She is scheduled to perform as “Susanna” in Le nozze di Figaro at Opera Santa Barbara in early 2025.
In 2022, Sunwoo was a Filene Artist at the Wolf Trap Opera, where she performed as Ännchen in Der Freischütz. She received the Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions during her time as a Chrisman Studio Artist at Opera Santa Barbara in 2021. In 2020, prior to cancellation she was to perform as Papagena in The Magic Flute, to cover First Sprite in Rusalka at the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Singer Program, as well as to cover Witness 1, Singer 1, and Woman 1 in Lessons in Love and Violence by George Benjamin at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She also participated as an Apprentice Singer at The Santa Fe Opera, where she covered Musetta in La Bohème in 2019. Finally, she recorded songs for a Japanese Nikon Camera advertisement, and also recorded the main title song of “Tachikoma,” a famous animation movie in Japan.
“With a shimmering light soprano, Park was able to capture the coy, yet sincere nature of [Ännchen]…”
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